Dine Pierce News Today

Tacoma’s Unique Bakery has opened at 925 Market St. And it brings with it something this city is short on – a deep selection of French pastries.  Local diners can swoop up croissants, macarons, cream puffs and other French/European bakery delights throughout Pierce County, but fetching that broad selection requires a bit of a scavenger […]

Making Christmas tamales together is a tradition spanning generations for some families. Except this year gathering to make those tamales becomes so much more complicated with pandemic concerns. That’s likely why Palmira Mendoza Martinez has seen an uptick in tamales orders this year at Los Tamales Mexican Restaurant, my favorite restaurant in Tacoma for tamales […]

Jason Alexander stood at the bar last week at newly opened Gilman House. He hovered over a giant plastic bucket surrounded by smaller buckets half filled with house-made elixirs for which Gilman House and its sister bar Devil’s Reef are known. Alexander’s brand of cocktail mixing is some kind of crazy alchemy.  He’s known for […]

Shortly before 11 a.m. on a Sunday in November, the line started to assemble on Sixth Avenue.  A woman who clearly had become a regular at The Cat & Rabbitt Cakeshop, which opened Nov. 15 on Sixth, explained to newbie pastry seekers that they were lining up in the wrong direction.  The line bent south, […]